As always, there’s one motto during De Dutch Summer Dance Course (DeDSDC): ‘Learn from the past, step into the future’. Course participants are introduced to the rich Dutch choreography and dance tradition.

DeDSDC offers courses for (inter)national professional dancers, dance students and amateur dancers from 2½ to 65+. DeDSDC is divided into several different courses for dancers and teachers of different ages and levels. For professional dancers and dance students repertoire of Hans van Manen and Jiří Kylián will be studied and performed.

De Dutch Summer Dance Course: more than a summer course

Specials are also organized (side program) through which the students are introduced to the world behind dance and get the opportunity to both get to know each other and the teachers. Soon the side program will be announced, think of lectures, museum visits and a summer dinner at the beach.

Contact (not for registrations)

For some students / dancers it is a problem to pay for the fee and other costs for De Dutch Summer Dance Course. The Job Sanders Scholarship (JSS) can give a financial support and/or an address to sleep and live.
The budget is limited.

Deadline: April 1st 2017

How to be considered for a JSS;

Write a motivation and explanation about your financial situation, to:

Please mention clearly if you need financial support, a place to stay or both and include your C.V.

The artistic team of De Dutch Summer Dance Course will make a decision in giving a dancer a JSS.

Job Sanders (Amsterdam 1929 – The Hague 2008)

Just before the 2nd World War Job Sanders left The Netherlands with his parents to the USA. He got a scholarship to study at the School of American Ballet where George Balanchine was teacher. He danced a.o. in: Ballet Society (later NYC Ballet), The Ballet Russes de Monte Carlo and Nederlands Dans Theater. He became director of several companies. As of 1967 he created many ballets and was a teacher on the Royal Conservatory and Rotterdam Dance Academy. His love for Dance and Theatre is passed on in the scholarship that has his name.

For students of De Dutch Summer Dance Course who needs an accommodation, we have a special offer at Kingkool. This hostel is at walking distance from Korzo theatre, in The Hague’s city centre. You can share the ‘Dutch Farm Room’ with other dance students.